Love Never Fails Quilling

[redheadedblonde]

My brother recently married his longtime girlfriend this October.  Fittingly, they married on 10-10-10, soon after they celebrated their 10th anniversary.  They're adorable--my little brother is precious, and his wife is very much a sister to me.  They also have fun tastes and had their reception in a loft-style building in the warehouse area of downtown Dallas.  As such, they put up a lot of framed artwork and photos throughout the bricked space.  My husband and I decided to each make them a gift playing off the theme of "Love Never Fails" (since we read from 1 Corinthians 13 at the ceremony) that they could use.  

I love, love, love Yulia Brodskaya's art, and I must admit that my piece was heavily influenced by her.  My husband designed the piece for me, so I can't take full credit.


I was pretty happy with it - I found that it was way easier to use a light table and spray adhesive and just follow the design with the long strips (cutting and folding as necessary) than trying to make each piece individually - especially for the curvy "never" and the scrollwork.  I'll do this again, but I need to make sure to use a repositional adhesive then - the paper got kinda rough looking with the spray adhesive I used this time.  I ended up spray painting the paper with several coats of white in order to help mask the rougher spots.



In the frame/shadow box (it's actually quite small - a foot square in size:



And for kicks, my husband's wonderful art.  He screenprinted his design on a large square canvas he'd painted with red acrylic.  It was really, really hard to give it up.  It looked great over our mantle the few days we had it.

Here's a link to his tumblr with the screenprint.

http://www.warholreject.com/post/1300789782/love-never-fails-check-out-these-crappy-1st

[RuuSuu]

Beautiful! I have been having trouble with my glue looking thick on my quilled pieces, I might have to look into spray adhesive!

[kaz814]

Oh wow, this rocks!

[spectrumsparksie]

This is beautiful, and so different to anything I've seen before.  Beautiful!

[pjherbert]

That is simply beautiful!

[green r my tear$]

This is a beautiful work of art. 

[Sirk]

Gorgeous!! I love Yulia Brodskaya's work too, amazing artist

[abbytail]

Lovely!
I straight away thought: that's a yulia brodskaya.... why would she be posting on craftster? Great work, and in the photo's it looks really good, no smudginess to be seen.
I like to use paper with a subtle sheen as a background for my quilling, as the glue doesn't show so much on it.

I've heard you could use bookbinders glue or photoglue too, but I've never tried it. I ended up using woodglue on a piece that I did for the wall art swap last year. It dried nice and matte on plain paper.

But I'm kind of straying from the topic here..

I love it when a rather oldfashioned medium as quilling is used in such a modern piece!

Keep those papers rolling!

[arwenjade]

Very cool! I'd never heard of Yulia Brodskaya before but after seeing your piece I looked her up. Yours is just as good as hers! I must try something similar... ^_^b

[redheadedblonde]

Aww, thanks guys!  You just made me blush!  (and very happy.)